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Space, Movement and Health: Biosocial Perspectives
2005 Biosocial Society Meeting
18 April, 2005
Wolfson Research Institute, University of Durham, Queen's Campus
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Some of anthropology's founding ethnographic works were based on
research into nomadic and/or transhumant populations. Studies of
migration have also been of key significance within both social and
biological branches of the discipline throughout much of the last 50
years. Today, however, work on movement is taking on new importance.
Talk of nomadism, migration and pilgrimage has increasingly been
augmented by discussions of the social, cultural and physical effects of
globalization and the creation of diasporic communities. Some
researchers have adopted the term 'travelling cultures' to describe
the growing importance of mobility to the self-perceptions and ways of
life of many populations.
This one-day conference will provide a unique perspective on population
mobility in relation to the issue of health. It brings together relevant
social anthropological insights on embodiment, movement, diaspora and
well-being with demographic and biological approaches relating to
patterns of disease transmission, nutrition and access to health
services. We integrate a range of approaches to look at how health is
understood, managed and contested by different populations in Western
and non-Western countries. Notions (and measurements) of health and
well-being provide ideal means of examining social, demographic and
biological dimensions of movement not only because they require a focus
on the body, but also because they lie at the centre of debates over
access to, and distribution of, medical resources to populations whose
relations with the state may be deeply problematic.
Speakers include:
Mark Lurie (Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital International
Health Institute, USA)
Caroline Bledsoe (Northwestern University, USA)
Craig Janes (University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences
Center, USA)
Sara Randall (University College London, UK)
Kaspar Wyss (Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel)
Dan Sellen (Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada)
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